Reduced instruction set computing
Hasitha Helappriya
January 16, 2011
In the mid-1980s to early-1990s, a crop of new high-performance Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) microprocessors appeared, influenced...
Showing posts with label Microprocessor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Microprocessor. Show all posts
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Multicore designs
Hasitha Helappriya
January 14, 2011
A different approach to improving a computer's performance is to add extra processors, as in symmetric multiprocessing designs, which ha...
Thursday, January 13, 2011
64-bit designs in personal computers
Hasitha Helappriya
January 13, 2011
While 64-bit microprocessor designs have been in use in several markets since the early 1990s, the early 2000s saw the introduction of 64-...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
32-bit designs
Hasitha Helappriya
January 12, 2011
16-bit designs had only been on the market briefly when 32-bit implementations started to appear. The most significant of the 32-bit designs...
Monday, January 10, 2011
12-bit designs
Hasitha Helappriya
January 10, 2011
The Intersil 6100 family consisted of a 12-bit microprocessor (the 6100) and a range of peripheral support and memory ICs. The microproces...
